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Allocating instantiated resources to an it-service

US9203773B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Gerd Breiter · Wildberg, DE
Simon Moser · Stuttgart, DE
Isabell Schwertle · Metzingen, DE
Thomas Spatzier · Holzgerlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 2013
Grant date	Dec 1, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 5, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L2012/5631
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and technique for allocating instances of resources to an IT-service includes a management engine operable to analyze a service model specifying a structure of an IT-service comprising nodes representing resources and being indicative of a resource type of said represented resource. Management rules specify the management of said node's resource. For each node, the engine determines the resource type indicated by said node; determines rules assigned to said node; evaluates the rules assigned to said node on a resource instance catalog and the determined resource type; applies a selection criteria on a service provider catalog for selecting a resource manager, the service provider catalog being indicative of one or more resource managers respectively being operable to provide a resource instance of a given resource type to the IT-service; create an instance of the resource provided by the selected resource manager; and allocate said instance to the IT-service.

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